English-Spanish translations for rife

• abundante
• abundantemente
• copiosamente
• difuso
• extendido
  Debe saber que la rabia se ha extendido entre los productores de melocotones en Grecia. You should know that anger is rife among peach producers in Greece.
  ¿No sería esta una buena oportunidad para acabar con el mito de que la corrupción y ese tipo de irregularidades están especialmente extendidos en los nuevos Estados miembros? Would this not be an appropriate opportunity to dispel the myth that corruption and irregularities of this kind are particularly rife in the new Member States?
  El procedimiento de cobrar precios diferentes para vuelos diferentes, según el país en el que se inicie el viaje, está muy extendido en el sector de las líneas aéreas de la Unión Europea. When the euro comes into force on 1 January and prices have to be quoted in euros, will he please undertake to make sure that this practice is not rife throughout the whole transport sector?

Definition of rife

• Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things
• Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful
• Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things
• Having power; active; nimble
• Plentifully, abundantly

Examples

• Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted
• These woodlands are rife with red deer
• Watermelons are rife with seeds
• Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption
• The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke

Related words

• Tenerife
• trifecta
• loosestrife
• strife
• odoriferous
• auriferous
• sudoriferous
• thurifer
• aeriferous